The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-01-13
A rOR BRAINS.

Large Salaries For Good Judgment.
IN this capital OF big salaries the gen.
eral impression is that the men who re-
cciYe the largest sums do very little
work in return. The truth is that while
all these well-paid officials get their sal
AZ es mainly for the exercise of their
judgment. some are natural hard and
worrisome workers, and some treat the
worries Of their places as indifferently
az 9 ducks back takes water. If Jay
Gould got any salary at all I should say
that he earned it the most easily of any
man in town. He is the personifcat:on
OF easy going, and never loses his tenn
per or his head. He treats his head
through the medium of his stomach by
living very plainly; in fact, he commits
no excesses in any direction except
money making. He has himself under
perfect control. He is as methodical as
2 machine, goes to bed at such an hour.
and spends just so many hours at his
office. Naturally, everybody who works
with him o. for him likes him. But
neither as President of the Manhattan
Elevated nor of the Gould system does
he take any salary. If he gets his SIS
for each attendance alta meeting of the
Western Union directory it is because
the money is sent to him.
1 The man who earns a large salary the
most easily is another easy-going rail
road man, President Chauncy M. De-
pew, of the New York Central. HE is
%variously credited with from 1926, 900
to 100000 year. He may work far
into the night, and unquestionably has
done SO again and again, but he always
appears to be ut his ease. even when he
IS explaining that he can't do something
he is asked to because he has -four other
things to do at the same time. Unlike
President Cleveland, he pays no atten-
ton to details. His s%ubordinates stew
over them and come to him for a word
OF final decision when they have reach
% the end of their responsibilities.
The man who earns 500, 0Oo the hard
est of any man l know is q celebrated
tea faster down town. To-day you see
him and he looks like another man,
but il you meet him in "a month hence
he will strike you ;as extraordinary.
his hat will then appear to be four sizes
too small and to be,perched on his head
like a anarking pot on "a barrel. This
1sssaid to be 'because'he has, been'poison-
ed in his business, and the lower part
OF his face and head has ~swelled
OF OF all proportion to his crown and
his hat. He. only washes his tongue
with the tea and then spits it out, but in
the course of doing this "a Thousand
Ilyaes a,day for several weeks the strong
drhgg does its work:and then he has to
lie ofsfor a'few weeks and shrink his
head readyeto begin again.
/ don't know how Fl. tB. HYDE. of the
Equitable Life, or. MI. McCurdy, of the
New Work Life, earn their 1886, 900 a
year apiece. They get extras" l
tHshk, that bring their salaries much
higher. The best paid editor in town,
MI. David M. Stone of the Journal of
Commerce, takes his $3.50 0 a year
very'complacently. Theodore Thomas
probably made 800, 900 last year, and
will duplicate it this year. He gets
$4,000 for fifteen weeks as leader of
the American Opera. But he is for
ever .high-strung, excited, and in
trouble, and salaries come hard with
him--Providence Journal